WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – After playing five of its first six games on the road, William & Mary men's basketball is back home for the second time this season when it welcomes Morehead State to Kaplan Arena on Tuesday night. The game, which tips at 7:30 p.m. as part of a Tribe basketball doubleheader, will be the W&M's fourth and final of the 2019 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Classic Powered by ShotTracker and will be streamed on FloHoops. The Tribe women take on Hartford at 5 p.m. prior to the men's contest against the Eagles.

Tribe Athletics will be collecting donations for the William & Mary Campus Food Pantry, which provides students and staff who are food insecure and their dependent family members access to non-perishable food and household products. The list of pantry offerings includes non-perishable food products (canned soup, fruit and vegetables), personal hygiene (soap and deodorant) and supplies (tissues and toilet paper). Fans who donate a non-perishable food item before the women's game are able to purchase a ticket to both games of the Tribe basketball doubleheader for only $10. Fans that donate prior to the men's game can purchase an $8 mezzanine ticket. Donations will be accepted once gates open for women's game until 10 minutes after men's contest tips off.

All Tribe home games will be streamed on FloHoops. A FloHoops subscription is $12.50 per month or $95.88 per year ($7.99 per month) and provides access to 130 CAA men's basketball games, as well as special features. Tribe fans can catch the men's basketball action over the Tribe Radio Network with Jay Colley and Charlie Woollum on the call. The Tide 92.3 FM and 107.9 Bach FM are the flagship stations of the Tribe Radio Network and the audio is also available over the Web via the Tune-In app.

Catch up with the Tribe through social media. Fans can keep up with W&M men's basketball by following the program on social media as well. Be sure to check out the Tribe on Twitter (@WMTribeMBB), Facebook (WMTribeMBB), and Instagram (WMTribeMBB).
 

W&M News and Notes
- W&M is 6-2 all-time against the Ohio Valley Conference since it began in 1948. Only two of the Tribe's eight games against the OVC have come in the last 50 years. Morehead State is just the second OVC team to visit Kaplan Arena, joining Jacksonville State in 2006. W&M downed the Gamecocks, 59-56. The Tribe's last game against an OVC team came vs. Eastern Kentucky in 2011 as part of the 2K Sports Classic benefitting Coaches vs. Cancer in Lynchburg, Tenn.

- Senior Nathan Knight is one of seven current D1 players with 1,500 career points and 600 career rebounds. This season, the 6-10 center moved into the program's top 10 in both scoring (9th at 1589 points) and rebounding (10th at 687). He is one of only two players in program history, along with Jeff Cohen (1958-61) to rank among the top 10 in both categories. Knight was one of five finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year last season.

- On Nov. 18, senior Andy Van Vliet was named the CAA Player of the Week after averaging 21.5 points and nine rebounds per game in two wins. He tallied 21 points on 5-of-9 from 3 in the one-point win at Wofford, before netting a career-high 22 points to go with 12 rebounds vs. Hampton. Van Vliet notched his third double-double of the year with 16 points and 13 rebounds at Oklahoma.

- Knight dominated at Big 12 opponent Oklahoma on Nov. 18 to the tune of a season-high 30 points. He was 13-of-18 from the floor, including 2-of-5 from 3-point range. It marked his 10th career game of 30 or more points, which is a program record.

- Both Knight and Van Vliet rank among the top 20 nationally in double-doubles and in the top 10 in the CAA in both scoring and rebounds. Knight is fifth in the country with four double-doubles, while Van Vliet is 17th with three. Knight's 26 career double-doubles rank sixth among active D1 players and are the most at W&M in the last 43 years. Knight ranks fifth in the CAA in scoring (18.5) and second in rebounding (10.0), while Van Vliet is eighth in scoring (16.0) and third on the glass (9.3).

- The Tribe outplayed Big 12 foe Oklahoma, who ranks just outside the top 25 in both the AP and coaches poll, for the majority of the teams meeting on Nov. 18. W&M led the game for nearly 34 minutes, including by as much as 11 in the first half. The Tribe outshot OU (46.7% to 41.8%), hit more 3-pointers (10-3) and outrebounded the Sooners (40-35), but OU used a 10-2 run in the final three minutes to rally past W&M.

- The Green and Gold started the season 4-0 for just the 10th time in the 115-year history of the program. It marked the first time W&M began a year 4-0 since 1992-93 and just the second time in the last 60 years.

- The Tribe leads the country in road wins with three. W&M tied a school record with three-straight road wins to open the season. On Nov. 12, the Green and Gold snapped Wofford's 17-game home court win streak, which was the fourth-longest in the country.

- Dane Fischer became just the third W&M head coach to start his career 4-0 and the first since Rube McCray in 1943-44. He is the first to win his first three road games.

- In each of the last two wins, the Tribe shot better than 54% from the field, including a season-high 56.4% at Wofford. On the year, W&M ranks fourth in the CAA in field goal % (47.6) and 3-point shooting (38.0). The Tribe ranks 59th nationally in field goal shooting and 39th nationally in effective field goal % (54.9).

- Graduate student Bryce Barnes has emerged on the offensive end for the Tribe. His driving lay-up with 3.8 seconds left gave W&M an 80-79 win at Wofford on Nov. 12. He followed by scoring 17 of his career-high 21 points in the first half of the win over Hampton. Barnes has posted a career-high tying seven assists against both Hampton and Oklahoma. He ranks fourth in the CAA in both assists (5.0) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.0). He is 59th in the country in total assists and 64th in assists per game.

- The Tribe's 16-point comeback at American, on Nov. 8, equaled the program's largest on the road in the last 30 years. Trailing 24-8, the Tribe held AU to 0.77 points per possession (44) over the final 31 minutes. The Eagles shot just 31.4% shooting from the field (16-of-51) and only 4-of-17 from 3 (23.5%) over that stretch.

- In each of its first five games, the Tribe has outrebounded its opponent. W&M ranks third in the CAA in rebounding margin at +2.8. The Tribe is 36-16 over the last four seasons when outrebounding its opponent.

- Knight's list of preseason accolades continued to grow last week as he was named to the watch lists for both the Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award and the Lou Henson Mid-Major Player of the Year Award, presented by CollegeInsider.com. A two-time Lou Henson All-American as a finalist for the award in both 2018 and 2019, Knight was one of only 40 players in the country to earn a spot on the Lute Olson Watch List. He was one of 50 players to earn a spot on the Lou Henson Award Watch List.

- For the second-straight year, Knight was one of 20 players nationally named to the preseason watch list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year award presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Last season, the 6-10 bigman was selected as one of five finalists for the honor.